1. Olivia Plender
  2. Many Maids Make Much Noise

    1. Many Maids Make Much Noise

      1. Chronos: health, access and intimacy

      2. Hag Nag Harpy Hen

      3. Our Bodies are Not the Problem

      4. Hold Hold Fire

      5. Memorial for Sylvia Pankhurst

      6. Our Bodies are Not the Problem, The Problem is Power

      7. Neither Strivers Nor Skivers, They Will Not Define Us

      8. Learning to Speak Sense

      9. Many Maids Make Much Noise

      10. Practising Politics: The Fogelstad Women’s Citizenship School 1925-1954

      11. Sylvia Pankhurst

      12. The Emily Davison Lodge

      13. Disobedient Women

    2. What is School?

      1. The Falkenberg Encyclopaedia

      2. What is School?

      3. Easton Fables

      4. The Inside Out Lion

      5. Practising Politics: The Fogelstad Women’s Citizenship School 1925–1954

      6. Open Forum

      7. Society is a Workshop

      8. Life in the Woods

      9. Beyond Former Heaven (or the Institute of Surrealist Ethnography)

      10. War Path

      11. Teaching, Lectures and Workshops

    3. Rise Early, Be Industrious

      1. Rise Early, Be Industrious

      2. Olivia Plender: Rise Early, Be Industrious

      3. Google Office

      4. Proposal to Remodel Arnolfini

      5. Self-Direction Lounge

      6. Audience Survey

    4. Information, Education, Entertainment

      1. Open Forum

      2. Information, Education, Entertainment

      3. Newsroom

      4. Monitor

      5. The Road to Ruin

      6. Slowly Learning to Survive the Desire to Simplify

      7. Ken Russell in Conversation with Olivia Plender

    5. The Medium and Daybreak

      1. Machine Shall Be the Slave of Man but We Will Not Slave for the Machine

      2. The Medium and Daybreak

      3. A Stellar Key to the Summerland

      4. Bring Back Robin Hood

      5. Bring Back Robin Hood: Notes on an Imagined Community

      6. Regeneration

      7. Celia and Olivia Plender Raising the Fox Sisters

      8. Life in the Woods

      9. Are Dreams Hallucinations During Sleep or Hallucinations Waking Dreams?

      10. Spirit Swindlers

      11. In Search of the New Republic (or the tables turned)

      12. A Public Meeting to Address the Phenomenon of Materialisation

    6. Artefacts

      1. Blind Eye

      2. Progress

      3. The Gods Present to Us the Artefact

      4. The New Jerusalem

      5. TINA

      6. Aadieu Adieu Apa (Goodbye Goodbye Father)

      7. Proposed Monuments to British Parliamentary Corruption

      8. Set Sail for the Levant: A Board Game About Debt (or a Social Satire)

    7. Printed Matter

      1. The Falkenberg Encyclopaedia

      2. Neither Strivers Nor Skivers, They Will Not Define Us

      3. Olivia Plender: Rise Early, Be Industrious

      4. Green Lines

      5. A Stellar Key to the Summerland

      6. The Inside Out Lion

      7. The History of Animal Kingdom

      8. Easton Fables

      9. Nelly Thüring, Bertha Wellin, Agda Östlund, Kerstin Hesselgren, Elisabeth Tamm

      10. Progress

      11. A Prior #19

      12. Urania

      13. Directions for a Play (after Jean Genet)

      14. Boom

      15. Are Dreams Hallucinations During Sleep or Hallucinations Waking Dreams?

      16. Spirit Swindlers

      17. Bring Back Robin Hood: Notes on an Imagined Community

      18. The Suffragette as Militant Artist

      19. Home Economies

      20. Aadieu Adieu Apa (Goodbye Goodbye Father)

      21. Set Sail for the Levant: A Board Game About Debt (or a Social Satire)

      22. War Path

      23. The World Upside Down

      24. Untitled

      25. The Masterpiece

      26. A Desire to Have the Best of Both Worlds

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A series of projects related to feminist history

Chronos: health, access and intimacy

curatorial project, Tensta konsthall, Stockholm, 2024

Hag Nag Harpy Hen

solo show, Kalmar konstmuseum, Sweden, 2023

Our Bodies are Not the Problem

solo show, Maureen Paley, London, 2022

Hold Hold Fire

video installation, ‘Though it's dark, still I sing’: 34th Bienal de São Paulo, 2021

Memorial for Sylvia Pankhurst

public art project, ‘You Belong Here’, Southbank Centre, London, 2024

Our Bodies are Not the Problem, The Problem is Power

installation, ‘Life Support – Forms of Care in Art and Activism’, Glasgow Women’s Library, 2021

Neither Strivers Nor Skivers, They Will Not Define Us

solo show, Amant Foundation, New York, 2022, and The Bower, London, 2021

Learning to Speak Sense

performance, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), 2019

Many Maids Make Much Noise

solo show, ar/ge kunst, Bolzano, 2015

Practising Politics: The Fogelstad Women’s Citizenship School 1925-1954

solo show, Tensta konsthall, Stockholm, 2019

Sylvia Pankhurst

curatorial project, Tate Britain, London, 2013-14

The Emily Davison Lodge

a collaboration between Olivia Plender and Hester Reeve 2010–

Disobedient Women

a series of drawings, 2010-ongoing

  1. (What is School?)

  2. (Rise Early, Be Industrious)

  3. (Information, Education, Entertainment)

  4. (The Medium and Daybreak)

  5. (Artefacts)

  6. (Printed Matter)